Re: WMUR TV sold

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@mediaone.net>]

I thought it was around $5,000,000 which frankly was a lot of money for that
operation back then. I'm curious on how much United Broadcasting was paid
for the cable company they started in Manchester. Even in the late 60's
United treated the cable company as the cash cow for the future as Sam
Phillips the WMUR GM in those days understood that cable would become as
important to consumers as the phone and electric company.

Imes reacted quickly to improve the operation when WNDS and later WNHT came
in the mid 80's, and they first struck gold in 1984 with the primary and
with tie ins with CNN showed they could play with the bigboys.





----- Original Message -----
From: <brouder@juno.com>
To: <kvahey@mediaone.net>
Cc: <brouder@juno.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: WMUR TV sold


> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:51:32 -0400 "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@mediaone.net>
> writes:
> >That is a staggering amount when you consider how much Imes paid for the
> >station some 20 years ago when they >bought it from United
> Broadcasting....
>
> I looked it up this afternoon.  Imes company paid $5 million when they
> bought WMUR TV in 1981.
>
> Ed Brouder
> Man From Mars Productions
> http://www.manfrommars.com